Thanks Curtis. Your Yucca shot is terrific. With the textured leaves and curly fibers it's a really interesting plant to shoot. I love one of it's common names, the Spanish Bayonet. Great photos of, and around, the Golden Gate!

I'm quite surprised by the image quality produced by this almost 40 years old piece of Nikon history; due to size limit of my hosting web site picture has been resized to D700 resolution (from D600), but the full resolution version is plenty sharp too.

Here is the zoom photographed (@ 50mm, f/16 and MFD) by the poor cousin 28-50mm f/3.5, a lens I like a lot.

designdog wrote:
Hello all. Pretty soon I will be in the market to add to my lens collection. I am thinking of either a 35mm, or, my preference, the 25-50 4 ais.

Any thoughts on best option? Seems I saw some shots here from the 25-50, but can't locate them now. My thinking is that lens and the 105 would be a great travel kit, except for the low light options...

That would be a nice travel combo. I carry the 28-50 3.5 and the 105 as my lightweight travel combo when low light is not anticipated.

setup just like the strawberry image above, but with Nikkor Q 135mm f2.8, and all my K1 through K5 tubes. I should have incremented the stack even slower, since there are some fuzzy beans in the pile. Vignette was added in post - the lens was just fine at the edges, but it looks better this way.

Testing with the Tc-200( Disadvantage is that it strengthens CA ..although you can not get everything;-) but I am very satisfied how it performs.. get 360mm f5.6 and 270mm f4 on Fx for barely 40 dollar is insane